Word: screening
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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There were no pricey hotel-cocktail tickets, no gourmet cheese spreads, no big bands and colorful balloons like those at the Park Plaza. Instead, the staffers were buying one another beers, and snacking on goldfish crackers as they shot cynical comments at the proceedings on the TV screen...
...fault we lost," shot one campaigner. Others were less tame in their comments, smearing the politicians on screen with expletives and harshly personal comments...
Doug Sosnick, political director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said that since Dimaura's blunder over the Bank of New England, "I've taken that race off the screen...
...cheapo slasher film The Evil Dead achieved cult status, mines familiar comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine (Frances McDormand), a couple of corporate villains -- one slick (Colin Friels), the other slimy (Larry Drake) -- and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...
...were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter, separating out the fossils with a garden hose and a window screen. To nonpaleontologists, Horner writes in his recent book, Digging Dinosaurs (Workman Publishing; $17.95), the fossils resembled "a bunch of black, sticklike rocks -- jumbled and inscrutable, the way much of modern art seems to me." But to Horner, they were the remains of 15 duckbill babies, almost ready to leave...